Hearts Card Game

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi

I'm trying to learn the Hearts card game.

Tellie ported hearts and I had installed from the netlabs-exp repository.  "yum install hearts".
I'm experiencing an issue, when you select File->New, it takes a long time from the cards to shuffle and being put in your deck to deal the cards. Tellie is not experimenting that.

Can someone also try that game and let me know?

Regards

Update: Corrected my card gaming English.

[David McKenna]

 Hi Martin,

I installed Hearts and took a look at it (don't know how to play it yet). It starts fine with a game ready to go. If I then do as you say and select File->New then yes, it places the new game cards VERY slowly. Not sure how it will do if I actually play the game offered when started is complete...

Regards,

[Martin Iturbide]

If I then do as you say and select File->New then yes, it places the new game cards VERY slowly.

That is exactly what I'm experiencing. On the hearts card game you have several shuffles (games?) until one player gets 100 points, then the game is over. When the next shuffle begins on this hearts game port, it also places the cards very slowly.

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

Hi, each round (shuffle) is called a hand. I used to like playing hearts, where did Tellie post the game?

[Andy Willis]

Hi, each round (shuffle) is called a hand. I used to like playing hearts, where did Tellie post the game?

I haven't played it yet but installed it via RPM a couple weeks ago I guess it was.

[Dave Yeo]

OK, installed it, The whole game seems irritatingly slow.

[TeLLie]

Hi all,
As I told Martin, i don't see the slowness on my comp.
If new cards are shuffle or when game is over  and new cards are giving it takes a sec to get new. I will look if i can find the culpit why it's slow for you guys.

And is this all with a VM or plain OS2?

Dis you set in settings the card speed ?

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi, each round (shuffle) is called a hand.

Thanks for the correction Dave, I'm not good with cards game 

[Dave Yeo]

Hi Tellie, it's on real hardware here. There's a noticeable delay when choosing cards, whether to trade or to play.
Thanks

[TeLLie]

Hi Tellie, it's on real hardware here. There's a noticeable delay when choosing cards, whether to trade or to play.
Thanks

Did the Card speed helps for the speed?
Is a option

[Dave Yeo]

Yes, setting it to fast helps. Still seems a bit slow but usable.

[TeLLie]

Yes, setting it to fast helps. Still seems a bit slow but usable.

Hi Dave,
I installed it on a test computer to, and there its slow to.
Maybe i need to install some updates, as on my main comp i have all the latest exp installed

I have to look, will comeback on this...

[Wendy Krieger]

I know how to play hearts as a game. 

There's a program called 'mshearts' that works under winos2.  It uses a few files, but can be freely downloaded from Win16 patch sites.  You can play against three computer players, or three over the network.

You play the game by playing 'tricks', that is, whoever has the 'lead', puts a card (of any suit), and other players follow with cards of the same suit.  If you have no card of that suit, then you can play any other card.  So if I lead something like five-diamonds, you have to put a diamond-card if you have one, but any other card if you don't.

The highest card of the same suit as the lead card wins that trick and becomes the lead.

The object of the game is to have the lowest score when someone gets 100 points.  A point comes from every heart card in tricks that you win (whatever the lead), or 13 points from the Q-spades.  If you get all of the points, then everyone elses' score goes up by 26, while yours stays as it is.

It's in my OS/2 themed "Windoze" https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15480 .  There is a good fraction of Win-OS/2 in there as well